“The Olympics are toxic. Our goals are to stop the Olympics and to abolish the International Olympic Committee,” said C.P. Robertson of the anti-Olympics group NOlympics LA. She was followed by Satoko Itani, a scholar-activist from Japan, who emphasized that “fighting the Olympics is hard work.”

They were speaking in Paris at the final session of the second-ever international anti-Olympics summit, which convened anti-games groups from past Olympic cities, future hosts, and locations bidding on the games.

The activists who traveled from around the world to attend the event at the University of Paris included people who hit the streets to protest the Olympics in London, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Barcelona-Pyrenees, Hamburg, and Paris itself. The meeting represented the left edge of anti-Olympics resistance. Sessions focused on Olympic greenwashing, policing, and surveillance, plus on-the-ground reports from activists living or working in Olympic host cities. The summit was hosted by Saccage, an activist collective based in Seine-Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, that works to defend public spaces being encroached upon by the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.